Language
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Territory
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Regulator(s)
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Amis
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Republic of China
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Council of Indigenous Peoples
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Afrikaans
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South Africa
Namibia
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Die Taalkommissie
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Akan
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Ghana
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Akan Orthography Committee (AOC)
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Albanian
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Albania
Kosovo
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Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
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Arabic
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Arab League
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Academy of the Arabic Language (? ?) Arabic Language International Council
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Algeria
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Supreme Council of the Arabic language in Algeria
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Egypt
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Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo
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Iraq
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Iraqi Academy of Sciences
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Jordan
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Jordan Academy of Arabic
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Libya
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Academy of the Arabic Language in Jamahiriya
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Morocco
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Academy of the Arabic Language in Morocco
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Saudi Arabia
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Academy of the Arabic Language in Riyadh
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Somalia
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Academy of the Arabic Language in Mogadishu
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Sudan
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Academy of the Arabic Language in Khartum
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Syria
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Academy of the Arabic Language in Damascus
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Tunisia
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Beit Al-Hikma Foundation
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Israel
Palestine
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Academy of the Arabic Language in Israel (? ?)
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Aragonese
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Aragon
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Academia de l'Aragonés, Aragon, Spain
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Armenian
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Armenia
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Armenian National Academy of Sciences ()
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Assamese
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Assam
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Asam Sahitya Sabha ( ? )
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Asturian
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Asturias
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Academy of the Asturian Language (Academia de la Llingua Asturiana)
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Azerbaijani
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Azerbaijan
Iran
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Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
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Basque
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Basque Country
Navarre
French Basque Country
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Euskaltzaindia, often translated as Royal Academy of the Basque language
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Belarusian
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Belarus
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The Jakub Kolas and Janka Kupala Institute of Language and Literature[2] at the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
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Bengali (Bangla)
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Bangladesh
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Bangla Academy ( ?)
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West Bengal
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Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi (? ?)
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Berber
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Morocco
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Royal Institute of Amazight Culture
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Algeria
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Haut-Conseil à l'amazighité
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Algerian Academy of Amazigh Language
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Central Bikol
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Philippines
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Academia Bicolana defunct
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Bosnian
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sand?ak
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University of Sarajevo
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Bulgarian
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Bulgaria
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Institute for Bulgarian Language at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
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Burmese
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Myanmar
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Myanmar Language Commission
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Catalan
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Catalonia
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Institute of Catalan Studies (Institut d'Estudis Catalans)
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Valencian Community
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Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua (for the Valencian standard)
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Cebuano
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Philippines
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Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters (Akademyang Bisaya)
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Cherokee
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Cherokee Nation
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Council of the Cherokee Nation (? )[3] |
Standard Chinese
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China
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State Language Work Committee ()
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Republic of China
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National Languages Committee (?)
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Singapore
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Promote Mandarin Council ()
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Malaysia
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Chinese Language Standardisation Council of Malaysia ()
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Cornish
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Cornwall
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Cornish Language Partnership (Keskowethyans an Taves Kernewek)
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Croatian
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Croatia
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Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics (Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje)
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Czech
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Czech Republic
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Institute of the Czech Language (of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic) (Ústav pro jazyk ?eský (Akademie v?d ?eské republiky))
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Danish
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Denmark
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Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Council)
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Dalecarlian
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Dalarna County
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Ulum Dalska
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Divehi
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Maldives
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Dhivehi Academy
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Dutch
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Netherlands
Belgium
Suriname
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Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
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Dzongkha
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Bhutan
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Dzongkha Development Commission ()
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English
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None official, but the Oxford English Dictionary is the principal historical dictionary of the English language.
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Estonian
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Estonia
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Emakeele Seltsi keeletoimkond (Language Board at the Mother Tongue Society) sets rules and standards, authoritative advice is given by the Institute of the Estonian Language (Eesti Keele Instituut)
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Faroese
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Faroe Islands
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Faroese Language Council (Málráðið)
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Filipino
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Philippines
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Commission on the Filipino Language (Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino)
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Finnish
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Finland
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Institute for the Languages of Finland
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French
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France
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Académie française (French Academy)
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Belgium
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Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique (Royal Academy of French Language and Literature of Belgium)
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Quebec
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Office québécois de la langue française (Quebec Office of the French Language)
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Galician
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Galicia
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Royal Galician Academy (Real Academia Galega)
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German
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Germany
Austria
Switzerland
South Tyrol
Belgium
Liechtenstein
Namibia
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Council for German Orthography (Rat für deutsche Rechtschreibung)
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Greenlandic
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Greenland
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The Greenland Language Secretariat (Oqaasileriffik)
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Greek
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Greece
Cyprus
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Center for the Greek Language (? ?)
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Guarani
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Paraguay
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Guarani Language Academy (Guarani Ñe' ? Rerekuapav?)
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Gujarati
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India
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Gujarat Sahitya Akademi regulatory body established by the Government of Gujarat and Gujarati Sahitya Parishad
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Hakka
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Republic of China
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Hakka Affairs Council ()
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Haitian Creole
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Haiti
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Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen (Haitian Creole Academy)
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Hebrew
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Israel
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Academy of the Hebrew Language (? )
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Hindi
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India
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Central Hindi Directorate (regulates use of Devanagari script and Hindi spelling in India)
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Tulu
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India
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Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy regulatory body for Tulu established by Government of Karnataka & Kerala Tulu Academy by Government of Kerala
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Hmar
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India
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Hmar Literature Society (Manipur, India)[] |
Hungarian
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Hungary
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Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Nyelvtudományi Intézete)
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Icelandic
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Iceland
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Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
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Igbo
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Nigeria
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Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
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Indonesian
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Indonesia
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Language and Book Development Agency (Badan Pengembangan Bahasa dan Perbukuan)
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Irish
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Ireland
Northern Ireland
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Foras na Gaeilge
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Italian
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Italy
San Marino
Switzerland
Vatican City
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Accademia della Crusca (Academy of the bran)
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Japanese
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Japan
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National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (?)
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Kannada
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Karnataka
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Various academies and Government of Karnataka
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Kashubian
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Poland
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Commission of the Kashubian Language [1]
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Kazakh
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Kazakhstan
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Ministry of Culture of Kazakhstan
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Khmer
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Cambodia
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Royal Academy of Cambodia ()
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Korean
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South Korea
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National Institute of the Korean Language (/)
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North Korea
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The Language Research Institute, Academy of Social Science ( )
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China
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China Korean Language Regulatory Commission (?/?)
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Kven
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Norway
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Kainun institutti - kvensk institutt
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Kurdish
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Kurdistan
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Kurdish Academy - ?
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Kyrgyz
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Kyrgyzstan
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National Committee for State Language under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic ( ? )
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Latin
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Holy See
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Pontifical Academy for Latin (Pontificia Academia Latinitatis) (ecclesiastical Latin)[4] |
International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy: botanical Latin)
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International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature: zoological Latin)
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Latvian
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Latvia
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Latvian State Language Center (Valsts Valodas Centrs)
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Lithuanian
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Lithuania
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Commission of the Lithuanian Language (Valstybin? lietuvi? kalbos komisija)
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Lusoga
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Uganda
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Lusoga Language Authority (LULA)
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Luxembourgish
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Luxembourg
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Council for the Luxembourgish Language (Conseil fir d'Letzebuerger Sprooch)
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Macedonian
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North Macedonia
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Linguistics and Literary Science Department at the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts
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Malagasy
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Madagascar
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Foibe momba ny teny at the Akademia Malagasy (http://www.tenymalagasy.gov.mg/)
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Malay
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Malaysia
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Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (The Institute of Language and Literature)
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Brunei
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Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka Brunei (Language and Literature Bureau)
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Singapore
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Majlis Bahasa Melayu Singapura (Malay Language Council, Singapore)
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Maltese
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Malta
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National Council for the Maltese Language (www.kunsilltalmalti.gov.mt)
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Manx
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Isle of Man
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Coonceil ny Gaelgey
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M?ori
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New Zealand
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M?ori Language Commission
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Mirandese
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Portugal
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Anstituto de la Lhéngua Mirandesa (Institute of the Mirandese Language)
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Mixtec
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Mexico
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Academy of the Mixtec Language (Ve'e Tu'un Sávi)
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Khalkha Mongolian
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Mongolia
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Council of the official state language ( ). Decisions have to be confirmed by the Mongolian government.[5] |
Chakhar Mongolian
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China
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Council for Language and Literature Work
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Nepali
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Nepal
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Language Academy of Nepal
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Norwegian (Riksmål/Bokmål)
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Norway
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Norwegian Academy
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Norwegian Bokmål Norwegian Nynorsk
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Norwegian Language Council
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Occitan
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Occitania
France
Spain
Monaco
Italy
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Lo Congrès Permanent de la lenga occitana (the permanent congress of occitan language)[6] Institut d'Estudis Aranesi (Aranese)[7] Conselh de la Lenga Occitana
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Odia
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India
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Odisha Sahitya Akademi
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Pashto
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Afghanistan
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Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
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Pakistan
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Pashto Academy
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Persian
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Iran
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Academy of Persian Language and Literature ( ? ? )
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Afghanistan
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Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
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Tajikistan
Uzbekistan
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Rudaki Institute of Language and Literature
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Paiwan
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Republic of China
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Council of Indigenous Peoples
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Polish
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Poland
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Polish Language Council (Rada J?zyka Polskiego), of the Polish Academy of Sciences
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Portuguese
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Portugal
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Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
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Brazil
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Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy)
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Galicia
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Galician Academy of the Portuguese Language (Academia Galega da Lingua Portuguesa)
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Quechua
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Peru
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High Academy of the Quechua Language (Qheswa simi hamut'ana kuraq suntur)
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Rohingya
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Arakan (Rakhine State)
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Rohingya Language Academy ( )
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Romanian
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Romania
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Institutul de Lingvistic? al Academiei Române (Institute for Linguistics of the Romanian Academy)
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Moldova
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Academia de ?tiin?e a Moldovei
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Romansh
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Switzerland
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Lia Rumantscha
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Russian
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Russian Empire
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Russian Academy (1783-1841)
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Russia
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Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 1944)
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Scots
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Scotland
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The Scots Language Centre supports the Scots language.[8]Scottish Language Dictionaries record and analyse the language as it is spoken and written throughout Scotland and Ulster today.[9] |
Secwepemctsín
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Canada
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Secwepemc Cultural Education Society
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Serbian and Montenegrin
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Serbia
Montenegro
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Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
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Sindhi
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Pakistan
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Sindhi Language Authority [2]
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Sinhala
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Sri Lanka
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Hela Havula ( ?)
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Slovak
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Slovakia
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?udovít ?túr Institute of Linguistics (Jazykovedný ústav ?udovíta ?túra) at Slovak Academy of Sciences (Slovenská akadémia vied)
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Slovene
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Slovenia
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Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
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Somali
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Djibouti
Ethiopia
Somalia
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Regional Somali Language Academy
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Sorbian
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Germany
Czech Republic
Poland
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Serbski institut [3]
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Spanish
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Spain
Colombia
Ecuador
Mexico
El Salvador
Venezuela
Chile
Peru
Guatemala
Costa Rica
Philippines
Panama
Cuba
Paraguay
Bolivia
Dominican Republic
Nicaragua
Argentina
Uruguay
Honduras
Puerto Rico
United States
Equatorial Guinea
Israel
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Association of Spanish Language Academies (constituted by the Royal Spanish Academy plus 23 other separate national academies in the Spanish-speaking world and an Israel-based committee for Judaeo-Spanish.)
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Swahili
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Tanzania
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Baraza la Kiswahili la Taifa
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Kenya
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Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa
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Swedish
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Sweden
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Swedish Language Council (semi-official) Swedish Academy
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Finland
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Swedish Language Department of the Research Institute for the Languages of Finland (Svenska språkbyrån)
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Tamil
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Tamil Nadu
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Thanjavur Tamil University and Official Language Commission of Government of Tamil Nadu
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Sri Lanka
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Department of Official Languages, Sri Lanka
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Singapore
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Tamil Language Council, Singapore
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Malaysia
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Malaysia Tamil Language Standardisation Council ( )
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Taiwanese Hokkien
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Republic of China
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Ministry of Education (Taiwan)
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Tatar
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Tatarstan
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Institute of Language, Literature and Arts of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan [4]
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Telugu
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Andhra Pradesh and Telangana
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Telugu Academy and Official Language Commission of Government of Andhra Pradesh
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Tetum
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East Timor
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National Institute of Linguistics at the National University of East Timor
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Thai
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Thailand
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Royal Society of Thailand (?)
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Tibetan
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Tibet Autonomous Region
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Committee for Tibetan Language Affairs [5]
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India
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Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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Turkish
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Turkey
Cyprus
Northern Cyprus
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Turkish Language Association
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Ukrainian
|
Ukraine
|
NASU Institute of Ukrainian Language
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Urdu
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Pakistan
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National Language Authority, Pakistan
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India
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National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India
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Urhobo
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Nigeria
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Urhobo Studies Association
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Vietnamese
|
Vietnam
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Institute of Linguistics of Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences
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Võro
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Estonia
|
Võro Institute
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Waray
|
Philippines
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Sanghiran san Binisaya ha Samar ug Leyte (Academy of the Visayan Language of Samar and Leyte) defunct
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Welsh
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Wales
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Welsh Language Commissioner (Aled Roberts) -- The Welsh Government (previously the Welsh Language Board Bwrdd yr Iaith Gymraeg)
(Principally, however, the role of the Welsh Language Commissioner is that of language planning and policy regulator and enforcer. The role also includes corpus planning.)
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West Frisian
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Friesland
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Fryske Akademy (Frisian Academy)
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Wolof
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Senegal
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Centre de linguistique appliquée de Dakar (Center of Applied Linguistics of Dakar at the Cheikh Anta Diop University)
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Yiddish
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United States
Sweden
Russia
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YIVO[10] (Note that YIVO does not regulate or hold any sway over the Yiddish used in Ultra-Orthodox circles where the Yiddish language is most used in current times. The orthography and pronunciation of Yiddish in the Ultra-Orthodox communities is dramatically different from the standardized version of Yiddish devised by YIVO. A prime example of this is the spelling of the name for the Yiddish language in Yiddish itself. YIVO promotes the spelling "", while the spelling "" is more commonly used in most Ultra-Orthodox contexts.)
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Yoruba
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Nigeria
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Yoruba Academy
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